Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 20:40:08 08/04/98
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>>I am afraid that it may come to that or either not getting enough Rebel 10 >>operators. Operators are pissed off that if they leave their machines they >>have to come back at a certain time to get the Rebel move. If it was a large >>change I could understand Ed's reluctance but surely changing the maximum >>time allowed per single analysis would not involve much work. You never learn KK, do you? >On the other hand, to be fair to Ed, it may be a lot more work than we might >think. Suppose (for instance) his program is written in Assembly language and >the data type for time is a two byte integer. It might have dozens of public >references, throughout the code. That would only be good for about 9 hrs >worth >of wait time, and in Assembly language, it might be somewhat tricky to update >it, compared to a HLL. >So what seems like a two minute fix in C++ could be a two week fix in Assembly >language [depending upon lots of factors, of course]. Assembly code also >tends >to be a lot larger, and you might need 100K lines to accomplish the same thing >as 10K lines of C++. >In short, the problem might be much larger than we might think. >Of course, it would be very nice to be able to specify up to 24 hours (or >more) of analysis time. Maybe all the competitors will put a little check box >comparision thing into the magazines and drive him to fix it. ;-) :-) 1-2 months ago in private email I told KK that we consider his request to extend the "fixed time-level" from MM:SS to HH:MM:SS and that the change already was present on our "todo" list for Rebel10. In that respect we like to extend the "average time-level" as well to HH:MM:SS format. I also told KK these changes do not have a high priority. I will pass the request to Rob (who has to program it) but I already fear the answer as he don't like to be pressured and certainly not in public.. :-) - Ed -
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